We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic, and organised Pharmacy Technician with an interest in medicines safety and controlled drug (CD) governance to join our Pharmacy Medicines Safety, Optimisation and Governance Team at LUHFT.
This postholder will work within the pharmacy medicines safety team with an emphasis on controlled drug (CD) management, supporting the lead and senior Medicines Safety Technician in key aspects of the work programme to improve compliance with CD and medicines storage standards.
Medicines safety and improvement is our priority. We are looking for a committed technician with excellent communication skills to work within multidisciplinary teams, providing specialist advice and guidance to improve the management of medicines in pharmacy and across the Trust.
The growing Pharmacy Medicines Safety team is friendly, supportive, and patient safety is at the heart of everything we do. The Pharmacy Department is large, innovative, and ever developing with lots of opportunities to progress.
Experience and knowledge working as a registered pharmacy technician in a hospital pharmacy are key for this post to support delivery of the best quality and safest care to patients.
Main duties of the job
* Support the safe management of CDs across the Trust by undertaking proactive monitoring of CDs, resolving CD balance discrepancies and helping to co-ordinate and data collect the pharmacy CD audits.
* Support the Pharmacy incident management processes by collating data, undertaking analysis producing reports, and presenting data in a variety of ways.
* Contribute to medicines incident investigations including formulating, delivery and follow up on action plans.
* Deliver shared learning from incidents by contributing to safety newsletters and providing education and training to the multidisciplinary teams.
* Take part in the dispensary and ward based pharmacy services on a sessional basis, supervising junior technical staff.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Duties - Medicines Safety
Collect, input and analyse medicines incident data to identify themes and trends and prepare reports including recommendations. Support the reporting of near misses medicines-related incidents across the organisation. Contribute to the review of pharmacy medicines safety incidents. Utilise tools and techniques to ensure systems review is undertaken and investigation and response are in line with the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework. Support the development and delivery of systems for sharing lessons and learning from incidents. Support the medicines safety leads in recording, monitoring and feeding back on medicines risks. Undertake investigations involving CD balance discrepancies ensuring misappropriation documentation and escalation pathways are followed. Support the proactive monitoring of CD use across the Trust utilising diversion dashboards and investigating any areas of concern highlighted. Assist with the design, co-ordination and completion of medicine safety, medicines management and CD audits, the input and analysis of data and the production and implementation of action plans. Provide supervision and support to staff undertaking the CD audits and assist with CD discrepancies they identify. Assist in writing and reviewing relevant departmental and organisational policies and procedures. Support actions in response to NHS England alerts and notices and ensure that responses are provided in a timely manner. Assist with updates to Trust medicines management training content. Interact with a range of colleagues to fulfil the responsibilities of the post including healthcare professionals across the multidisciplinary team.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Experience
Essential
* Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
* NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services and BTEC Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences with appropriate underpinning knowledge
* Demonstrable hospital experience
* Accredited Checking Qualification
Knowledge
Essential
* Understanding of the importance of incident reporting, review, action and shared learning
Skills
Essential
* Pleasant and helpful attitude
* Computer literate
Desirable
* Microsoft Computer Package including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Access
Employer details
Employer name
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Liverpool University Hospital
Mount Vernon Street
Liverpool
L7 8YE
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